Blog Posts in November, 2011
Posted on Nov 30, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
It seems I'll never get away from the "Candy Man." Dean Corll, the so-called "Candy Man," was a serial killer Northwest Houston parents used for years as a cautionary tale to ...
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Posted on Nov 22, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
A Fort Bend County man accused of a nearly decade old murder was granted reasonable bail because he was not indicted within ninety days of his arrest. The trial court judge followed Texas law when ...
Continue reading "Reasonable Bail Is a Right, Not a Mistake (Updated)" »
Posted on Nov 21, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Large amounts of drugs detected by drug-sniffing dogs are frequently the subject of news reports like this one from today's Houston Chronicle. The police apparently failed to inform to the ...
Continue reading "Fruit of the Poisonous Traffic Stop" »
Posted on Nov 15, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
The Harris County District Attorneys Office's DIVERT Program, a pre-trial intervention style program for qualifying DWI Defendants, has been praised by a variety of parties, including the ...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
There are libraries of books about the Great War, about the generation it killed and the generation that survived, perhaps neither understanding what it was about and the latter knowing only for ...
Continue reading "Remembering Armistice Day" »
Posted on Nov 8, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
The controversey surrounding the Houston Police Department's BAT Vans and alleged DA's office cover-up is but one reminder that area prosecutors regularly have to contend with news of police ...
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Posted on Nov 2, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
A California man accused in Federal Court of hacking into the online accounts of numerous celebrities entered a plea of not-guilty today. His bond was set at $110,000. According to an article in the ...
Continue reading "Feds Target Johansson Hacker, Still Ignore Wall Street" »
Posted on Nov 1, 2011 By Law Offices of Q. Tate Williams
Playwright George Bernard Shaw supposedly quipped, "Britain and America are two countries separated by a common language." A recent article on mandatory sentencing in England and Wales from ...
Continue reading "Separated by More than a Common Language" »